Sun, Mar 13, 2016

Key Largo

75 Years of Film Noir, Part 4: Prime Noir of the 1940s

(1948) dir John Huston w/Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Edward G. Robinson, Lionel Barrymore, Claire Trevor [100 min; 35mm]
It’s probably overstating things to say that there would be no film noir without Humphrey Bogart and John Huston – whose first pairing was the genre defining The Maltese Falcon – but it might not have the notoriety that it does today without them. In KEY LARGO, Bogie plays a veteran visiting the Florida family of a dead compatriot (Bacall and Barrymore) when they all find themselves at the mercy of both an impending hurricane and a ruthless gangster on the lam (Robinson).